Suzuki with the best series of podiums since the return in 2015

Suzuki was back on the podium at the Malaysian MotoGP Grand Prix, ensuring its most successful MotoGP series in a decade. And it’s even one of the team’s most elated podium series since returning to the category in the 2015 season.

Motorcycle Sports went to the results files and found that since 2007 Suzuki wasn’t seen with such a positive streak. At the time, Chris Vermeulen was second in the United States and in San Marino and John Hopkins second in the Czech Republic and third in San Marino.

Since returning in 2015, Suzuki had made two consecutive podium finishes in 2016 with Maverick Viñales in Japan and Australia. Already this year Andrea Iannone and Álex Rins finished in the third places of the Argentina GPs, USA and Spain. Now, with two second places (one from Iannone, another from Rins) and a third (Rins), Suzuki achieved the best series of results in more than a decade, which only underlines the team’s progress this season. The next step will be to put the two riders in the top three…